Wichita eagle., 1887-05-04
OUR EXCHANGES.

OUR EXCHANGES.
The hundreds of newspapers every day
filed on the table in the EAGLE Office are a
book whose pages contain a record of the
country, interesting to peruse and contem
plate. They represent the cities and many
of the smaller towns from Maine to Cali
fornia. Here is one, published in some
eastern state, claiming to have been estab
lished away hack in the last century: at a
time when Kansas was considered part of
the Great American Desert. The cheap
paper upon which it is printed suggests
great economy on the part of its publish
ers. Its advertising columns are
alled mostly with large Illus
trations calling the attention of the
reader to the merits of Jim Crank's salve
Or the medicines compounded by the great
DR. Gimpson Smartweed, recommended to
cure all the ills flesh is heir to. The edi
tor of this rare old specimen of former
EAGLE and forthwith proceeds to launch a
thunder bolt of columns length at Kan
sas in general and the EAGLE and Marsh
Murl bck 10 particular Living in some
little valley three quarters of Il mile wide,
he of course can not even imagine part
OF the graniure of southern Kansas with
iii or iol,
bottom lands, and bright cheer
ful climate He has read in
The EAGLE of the wonderful strides of
this city aud proceeds to tell his readers
how Wichita will burst, go down. bottom
drop out and SO fourth And illustrates
his position by Jonah's gourd or pumpkin
that grew up in night and bad thunder
knock out of it by the mornings sun. All
this he does when if he would investigate,
the startling truth would be forced npou
his mind that Kansas towns 10 general and
Wichita 10 particular are not being built
up in night. They are built in the
bright sunshine Of commercial prosperity
and their foundations laid in the product
iveness of this God favored land 4 large
number Of papers ike this one
referred to are not exchanges; but John
Jones or Bill Smith, who has visited
Wichita and of course is a reader of the
EAGLE, is also subscriber TO this other
paper, and when he reads the scaudalous
story and its conclusions he sends it to the
EAGLE with the libelous article marked all
round with blue or red ink, the reading of
which of course only makes us tired, and
we long for a rest. In looking over this
great mass of papers, we know a western
paper at glance. The clear, substantial
paper, and the workmanship displayed are
sure indication. These Kansas papers in
particular are representatives of their
towns. Their advertising columns show
they have the support of their business
men. Even the little paper out in the
sor western counties show the sparkle and
vim OF the people who are filing up these
broad, fertile plains. One imagines. as be
fcTSuCs lDtlT COluHlLS, tDaL ne can see Tie
armies Of sattiers filing in to take posses,
sion of the land, and the railroad engineer
setting his stakes to mark the route of
some important road which is 10 give
Wichita another connection with the Great
New West. He hears the noise and com
motion of new towns and cities that are
being built, and away out on the broad,
bOundless prairies he hears the He. O..
he aud the heavy steel rail drops
from the construction train where
sOon shall roll immense trains laden with
the riches OF the land. Another lesson 10
be learned from the papers is that the
minds OF great men are liable to run in the
same channel We notice that editorials
al over the country on any given subject
are nearly alike. About one hundred and
twenty seven papers throughout the couu-
try express themselves editorialiy on the
subject of Nobel Prentice leaving Law
renee in exactly the same language word
for word, which is remarkable coinci-
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